­ As you may have all seen, I have the habit of starting my posts with a hi guys, so this time I will greet you with welcome, people! Riva here, once again, your insider from the 24K concert. We’ve talked about the airport and the flashmob, saving the best for last: THE CONCERT! Even if you were there in person or if you’ve watched our livestream on the KCulture in Romania facebook page, you will know well enough that it was absolutely a blast, one of the best Kpop concerts in Romania (in my opinion ^^)

First and foremost, let’s talk about the meet&greet event. This was available along with purchasing the VIP ticket, consisting of greeting each member in a line while giving them a high-five (which resembled more a high-touch in here, no offence to others) and at the end we had a photographer taking group pictures. Although that was it, basically, this interlude was at the same time a nice opportunity of getting used to them beforehand, and them with you. About 24K all I can say is that they’re sweet and they we’re all wide smiles, some of them even greeted us in Romanian (Kisu), others sneaking by a couple of words in English (Cory), as for the rest, we got a few shy ‘hi’s or ‘hello’s. When taking the picture, I had the luck of sitting in front of Cory, where he did the sweetest thing ever. I thought it would be a bit awkward if I’d ask if we could make a matching pose or anything like that, right in that moment I felt him grabbing a lock of my hair, putting it up. That was all I needed and more.

After that we were told to keep seated on our places, so we waited for the concert to start. The boys entered the stage legendarily, with the song « BINGO ». Looking from left to right on the stage, then back to the screaming crowd, gazing openmouthed, I was ensured of one thing: THESE BOYS KNOW HOW TO ROCK THE SHOW! I wasn’t disappointed the least regarding the performance, even if we’re talking about the intense title tracks, strongly choreographed, or the more hype songs on the album, including the cuter ballads.

Some very pleasant surprises that we all can rejoice in are the special moments: vocal-line (Jinhong, Cory, Kisu and Hui), rap-line (Jeonguk and Cory) and the dance battle (Changsun and Hongseob, with a special featuring from Jeonguk’s part), and if this wasn’t already done, they had two more songs which they impressively performed, all seven of them: “5 More Hours” by Chris Brown and Big Bang’s “Bang Bang Bang. Once again, something never seen before (by me, nevertheless) was this mini-event in which they called over three fans from the crowd to join them on stage, teaching them a snippet of the “Bingo” choreography. Working as a game, the winner was decided by the crowd’s reaction, but at the end they all received a nice prize, that is a signed album.

When two hours-something already had passed (I couldn’t keep an eye on the time, sorry, it all went by in a flash) and the concert was getting to an ending, they performed the songs “Heaven” and “Superfly”. The audience went wild, getting loose completely, Jeonguk was soaking wet now, spraying some water at the crowd who was like on fire. And even when we almost were out of voice to scream even more, the boys took us by surprise with an unreleased version of their song “Bingo”, a remix, at the end “fainting”, probably of exhaustion but more because of relief that it all went good.

As a personal experience: Fire! I had the luck of grabbing a first-row ticket, and let me tell you, these boys were really attentive in their fan-service (even those sitting in the very back, always sneaking gazes and little heart signs) making the concert a bit more intimate. That’s what I love about Kpop, I guess. So if I could rate this, I would give them a 9 out of 10, and the reason is : they promised that they’ll be returning, announcing their comeback somewhere in the near future. 24K, I’m waiting for you to come back so I can give you that well-deserved mark you’re missing.

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KCulture in Romania, known as KCu.Ro, is one of the oldest communities which promotes everything that has to do with South Korea among the Korean culture lovers from Romania.